We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.

I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

Luxury is not happiness - happiness is luxury.

...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want.

I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come.

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously.